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A Natural Healthy Method To Enhancing Your Vision
The eyes really don't exist in isolation. They are an important element of your overall being impacting and being swayed by the mind, spirit and conscience.
All portions of the visual system - the eyes, the muscles around and in the eyes, the neurological pathways to the brain plus the visual centers of the brain- all demand lots of precision and control to operate properly. Due to the fact it is a real fragile system it is very easily left open to deterioration and impact by weariness and anxiety, irrespective of where it comes from. The visual system is also very sensitive to any nutritional deficiencies and imbalances that might be present in the body.
A holistic model of visual therapy includes these three components:
1. Physical vision
2. Inner seeing
3. Emotional eyesight
1. Physical eyesight involves more than just 20/20 vision. For you to be able to interpret an image, 3 different skills are involved:
Firstly - at any instant your visual field is huge and your mind must decide what to focus on. This is skill 1 - central and peripheral balance
Following this first step, your eyes carry out the process of visual focus, where you are able to see one particular object with precision and clarity. This is known as the step of Binocularity
Next, your eye muscles either contract or relax to bring the object into visual focus. Skill 3 - The act of focusing itself
For all the above to work, the eye musculature must be in good working order, being relaxed and supple.
If you are not in a state of relaxation, your eyes will be subject to a multitude of problems, not least of which is an inability to focus.. Some of these difficulties might include: headaches, eye strain, nausea and generally feeling unwell.
2. Your mind's eye and inner vision. This involves: memory, imagination, inner seeing, hopes and dreams. Training your inner vision and mind's eye will take you miles beyond 20/20, by improving your concentration, imagination, memory and ability to visualize and think creatively. In general, you will be able to see and intepret things more clearly, so your ability to see things in a positive light will improve. You will replace limiting images of yourself with a clearer and more positive sense of who you are.
3. Emotinoal seeing is the least important of the three, but still useful. Improving your emotional vision is to truly open those 'windows to the soul', allowing you to develop more powerful relationships with others by being more open and expressive with your eyes.
Two important factors that are involved in poor vision include stress/tension and the acquiring of harmful visual habits over time. This can lead to a vast range of eye conditions, a few of which include amblyopia, myopia and computer eye strain.
Glasses and contacts treat the symptoms of poor vision very effectively: when you put them on you temporarily get rid of poor vision. Contact lenses and glasses however, are not able to fix the basic cause of your poor eyesight. Instead, you find yourself wearing thicker and thicker lenses over time as your vision deteriorates further and further.
Natural visual enhancement can help you to improve your vision so you either need thinner glasses or can even throw your glasses away completely. What you need to do, is to take the holistic approach and address your physical eyesight, inner vision and emotional seeing. The following article will show you how to do exactly that: Perfect Vision Without Glasses.
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Increase Your Eyesight With This Effective Vision Workout
A recent study showed that the most common reasons for bad eyesight are incurred naturally and can be cured naturally. It is a wonder why almost everyone accepts wearing glasses as the only solution to poor eyesight, without paying any heed whatsoever to the usefulness of performing regular eye exercises?
I genuinely believe that people are just simply unaware just how their eyes work and how quickly it can respond to a little bit of exercise. Since the more recent studies are confirming the important role of eye muscles in controlling visual acuity, it stands to reason that you can improve your visual clarity simply by performing specialized eye exercises. Just as the late Dr Bates - the pioneer of natural vision improvement - believed, more and more natural visual enhancement therapists are confirming that the vast majority (over three quaters) of people with visual disturbances can be cured either fully or in part, using natural techniques.
Given that glasses teach you eyes bad habits, commonly cause a steady deterioration in eyesight and cost on average $500 a year it is evident that being able to address your vision through natural means would be extremely beneficial to almost anyone who thinks they are in need of glasses.
If you have been afflicted by poor vision which requires visual aid, just for you to carry out your every-day activities, then what I have to tell you now is very important. No matter how bad your eyesight, in most cases (depending on the actual cause), good eyesight can be re-established using visual techniques. In fact some people can completely cure their vision problems within the first month of proper eye training. The exercises can even work on eyesight problems that have been caused by ageing.
Below you will find an example of a technique you can use to help restore your vision over time:
Teaching your eyes to Relax
Too many people make the mistake of underestimating the role relaxation plays in improving eyesight. Eye strain very quickly results in a loss of synchrony between different eye movements required in good vision. The muscles in your eyes are different to those in other parts of your body. When your eye muscles become strained, you don't usually notice it as a pain in or around your eyes, you simply experience it with poor vision.
To get rid of eye strain, you can use a method taught by Dr Bates called 'palming'. Despite being an incredibly simple technique, palming is easily one of the most effective exercises for improving visual acuity over time. Palming can produce excellent results after just a few weeks of regular use.
Here is how to perform it:
With your arms raised in front of you, face your hands toward your face. Cover your eyes with your palms, with your hands cupped so as to avoid pressing down on your eyelids. Put your elbows on your desk or another hard surface and try to make yourself comfortable. At this stage, it is important to think of calm and relaxing things. The goal here is to calm all the muscles in and around the eyes. It may not be so easy at first, but it will come with practice.
For more information on eye exercises, I highly recommend you read: Eye Health.
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Eye-Sight Improvement Via Nutrition
The food you eat plays a big role in deciding how well you can see. The eyes and brain contain millions of highly specialized cells, which have specific nutritional requirements. Sometimes, all you need to improve your vision is a change in your choice of foods - implementing more fruits and vegetables into your diet and perhaps the occasional supplement for those micronutrients that are scarce in the modern day environment.
Essential Dietary Concepts - Food For Eyes
Nutrition should not be ignored, regardless of what road to self betterment you are taking. It certainly helps to scrutinize one's current dietary regime, prior to starting out on a system of visual improvement. Be sure to avoid all processed foods such as white flour, white rice and white pasta. Stick to the wholemeal variety of grains, mixed in with fresh fruits and vegetables. Over time, one must seek to do away with white rice, white pasta, dairy, beef, pork and fast food, and change to a program that is largely comprised of dark green leafy vegetables, all forms of fruit, brown rice, brown pasta, brown bread etc. If you do just this, you will notice a tremednous improvement in your health AND your eyesight.
With some particular micronutrients, it's a good idea to add in some supplements since they are hard to obtain from food. Despite having fresh raw fruits and vegetables, there are some micronutrients that will still likely be deficient in your body, due to the poor state of the soil in most places. Since we as humans have overused and polluted are food source based on land, an alternative option is to consume plants that grow in the sea - examples being wakame, kelp, dulse and sea lettuce. These contain far more nutrients than land-based plants.
Incorporate anti-oxidants into your diet. Scientists have spent much time testing and deliberating over the benefits of antioxidants, and it's been made quite clear that they are very beneficial to one's vision.
If you are diagnosed with an eye disease, research the nutritional aspects of the disease and adjust your diet accordingly. Focusing on your specific condition in this way will help you to get results that much quicker.
Remember that natural sunlight is a nutrient that we all need. Our ancestors in the past did not need eyeglasses. This is partly because of their diet, and also partly because they spent a large part of their day outside gathering food. If you're too busy and you want to be productive, why not put an audiobook in your mp3 player and go for a walk in the sun?
How To Do Away With Bad Eating Habits
We can sit here and talk all we like about what's good for us, but there comes a point when you realize that it just aint easy changing what you eat. The purpose of food is solely to nourish our bodies. We are so tied in with all those bad foods we eat, that we get down and depressed as soon as we change to a healthy diet From now on, rather than unconsciously reach out for whatever you normally eat, think to yourself - am I doing this for comfort, do I really NEED to eat this. Each time we reach for a 'treat', or go for something to eat even though we don't feel hungry, we need to pause for a moment to ask ourselves whether our body needs this food or whether it is serving another purpose.
Did you know that in many cases a lack of adequate hydration can trigger the hunger response. The only way to find out if you are really hungry or not, is to just take some water and wait to see if the hunger goes away. At other times what we really need is sleep, or exercise, someone to talk to, or a hug.
It is usually not our fault that we have developed poor food choices, but the blame can be attributed to our parents from the foods they gave us in childhood. When we were young and upset, many of us were soothed with a cookie, ice cream, or other sweets. Even as children we perhaps knew that this stuff would do us harm. Now in my opinion the highs you get in the immediate sense from such foods is not worth the long term sequelae of poor health and deteriorating vision. Fortunately, the fact that you are reading this article means you are willing to change all of that negative conditioning and regain control of your nutrition, your eyes and your life in general
It is usually better option to complement your current diet with healthier options, as opposed to having a complete overhaul to what you are currently eating. We soon find that as we feel better, we want to eat well to maintain our health.
Further educating yourself on the topic of visual enhancement through nutrition, will help to achieve better results faster. To learn more, click the following link: zeaxanthin.
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How To Strengthen Your Eyesight Easily Without Glasses/Surgery
The eyes don't exist in seclusion. They are an extremely essential component of your complete person influencing and being impacted by the mind, character and conscience.
All sections of the visual system - the eyes, the muscles around and in the eyes, the neurological route to the visual cortex and the brain itself; are particularly sensitive and hence need to have a large degree of complete focus to present ideal performance. As a result of being so elaborate it is quite easily thrown out of balance and its functionality stricken by seemingly unimportant issues like stress and tension, regardless of where it comes from. Nutritional standards also play an important role in determining the functioning of your visual system.
A holistic model of eyesight improvement includes these three components:
1. Physical seeing
2. Inner eyesight
3. Emotional eyesight
1. If you thought that achieving perfect physical eyesight was just achieving 20 20 vision, then you thought wrong. For you to be able to interpret an image, 3 different skills are involved:
Your brain initially allows you to focus on one particular aspect of your entire field of view. (SKILL ONE: Peripheral Awareness and Central/Peripheral Balance)
Next, is the act of focusing itself, which is carried out in result of a signal from your brain. Skill 2: Binocularity/Convergence
Next, your eye muscles either contract or relax to bring the object into visual focus. (SKILL THREE: Accommodation/Focusing)
For all the above to work, the eye musculature must be in good working order, being relaxed and supple.
Imperfect vision arises from an inability to focus. Not merely because your eyes' lenses are not working from overusage, but rather from stress, tension and fatigue, which affect the musculature in and around your eyes and the signaling from your brain. It can also lead to other difficulties.. These problems may involve: eyestrain and fatigue, headaches, glasses and contacts never feeling right, difficulty concentrating, poor eye-hand coordination and depth perception and eyes always feeling tired.
2. Remember that it is actually your mind that does the seeing, not your eyes. That's why inner vision is so important. It involves: memory, imagination, inner seeing, hopes and dreams. Training your inner vision and mind's eye will take you miles beyond 20/20, by improving your concentration, imagination, memory and ability to visualize and think creatively. In general, you will be able to see and intepret things more clearly, so your ability to see things in a positive light will improve. You will have the power to destroy all those negative images in your mind and replace them with powerful images that can change your perspective of who you are.
3. Emotinoal seeing is the least important of the three, but still useful. Improving your emotional vision is to truly open those 'windows to the soul', truly giving you the chance to communicate and relate to others in a special way.
Vision problems often appear when there is both prolonged stress in the visual system and improper visual/muscular habit patterns. Some of the conditions you can get from stress and poor visual habits include near sightedness, far sightedness and astigmatism.
You may think that artificial lenses get rid of the problem of poor eyesight completely - since you can see perfectly clearly when you put them on. Contact lenses and glasses however, are not able to fix the basic cause of your poor eyesight. Instead, you find yourself wearing thicker and thicker lenses over time as your vision deteriorates further and further.
The sooner you wake up to reality and realize that your glasses will actually make your eyesight worse, the better. The best thing to do if you want better vision, is to re-learn good visual habits and discover how to relax your eyes in a way that allows them to function as well as when you were a baby. To learn more, click the link to visit How to Improve Eyesight.
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